The special’s special
Mid-engine, V12 Daytona SP3 is the latest from Ferrari’s Icona specials department
DURING THE LAUNCH OF THE 812 Competizione (see evo 292), Ferrari said it would continue to produce its 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine for as long as its customers wanted it and legislation would allow it. A month after making us rethink what a front-engined V12 Ferrari is capable of, the F140HB has now been implanted into the company’s latest special-series ‘Icona’ car: the Daytona SP3.
Joining the Monza SP1 and 2, the Daytona is the next limited-run (599 units) special that good customers and Ferrari friends are being invited to hand over in the region of £2million for. However, unlike the Monza models, the Daytona will have worldwide homologation, meaning customers in markets where the original Icona models weren’t homologated, such as the US, will be invited to buy an SP3.
What they’ll be getting is a carbonfibre chassis’d
Above: SP3 features a removable hard-top; aero is managed without the aid of any active elements; as in the 812 Competizione, the mid-mounted V12 revs to an incredible 9500rpm; 0-62mph takes a claimed 2.85sec (think: big evolution of the Laferrari’s tub) and bodied two-seater that pays homage to the firm’s 1960s sportscar racers, specifically those that finished 1-2-3 at Daytona in 1967. The targa-roofed body is not only a homage to those legends but a slave to modernday aerodynamics to keep the car on the ground and feed the gargantuan powerplant in its belly.
That V12 is a tweaked version of the Competizione’s, producing 829bhp – up 10bhp and the most powerful V12 Ferrari has installed in a road car – and 514lb ft (+4lb ft) in a car with a claimed dry weight of 1485kg. It’s rear-wheel drive, too, without an electric motor to be found on any axle, although it also does without the Competizione’s very trick individual rear-wheel-steering system.
Deliveries will start in 2022 and run through to 2024, with hopefully enough owners prepared to drive their Daytonas in public rather than hide them away.